Gold Coast slave ship bound for the cotton fields.

Sold in a market down in New Orleans

Scarred old slaver knows he’s doin’ all right

Hear him whip the women just around midnight.

Brown Sugar - how come you dance so good? Huh?

Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should - Uh huh!



Drums beatin’ cold - English blood runs hot!

Lady of the house wond’rin’ where it’s gonna stop.

House-boy knows that he’s doin’ all right.

You shoulda heard ‘em just around midnight!

Brown Sugar - how come you dance so good, now?

Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should, now. Yeah!



Brown Sugar - how come you dance so good, now?

Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should, now. Yeah!



I bet your Mama was a tent-show queen

And all her boyfriends were sweet sixteen.

I’m no schoolboy but I know what I like -

You shoula heard ‘em just around midnight.

Brown Sugar - how come you dance so good? Yeah!

Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should! Yeah!

Brown Sugar - how come you dance so good, now?

Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should, now. Yeah!

Brown Sugar - how come you dance so good, now?

Brown Sugar - just like a young girl should, now. Yeah!

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